Black Scorpion is a female superhero in the vein of Spider-Man, Superman and Batman. She is beautiful, sexy and highly intelligent, and she has great martial-arts skills and a rapier wit. By day, Black Scorpion is Darcy, a policewoman, driving a white Corvette. By night, she becomes Black Scorpion and her Corvette morphs into the Scorpionmobile, a super-charged futuristic car equipped with an arsenal of science-fiction devices. Like her male comic-book counterparts, Black Scorpion's drive to assume another identity to confront evil and bring criminals to justice is fuelled by a strong personal motivation: the murder of her policeman father by a notorious supervillain, the Breathtaker. Unable to obtain justice through "the system," she assumes an alter ego to take the law into her own hands. Black Scorpion uses her crime-solving skills, her martial-arts prowess, and her Scorpionmobile to pursue and fight the supervillains and supervixens who threaten the City of Angels, a comi